Longtime Newark City Councilman Luis Quintana Slated To Take Over Mayor’s Spot

By Fox News Latino

NEWARK, N.J. –  With Mayor Cory Booker heading to Washington, who will run Newark?

The answer, at least for the next few months, appears to be a man just one floor up from the mayor’s office in City Hall.

Municipal Council President Luis Quintana is widely expected to act as interim mayor after Booker is sworn in as a U.S. senator Thursday.

Quintana, 53, is no stranger to Newark City Hall or its rough-and-tumble politics. He is the longest-serving member of the City Council, elected to his at-large seat in 1994.

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